Philosophy, God, and motion /
Oliver, Simon,1971-
London : Routledge,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-243) and index.
Plato's Timaeus and the soul's motion of knowing. The Nature of the cosmos. Reason, necessity and the power of rhetorical persuasion. The pedagogy and ethics of cosmology -- Aristotle: ecstasy and intensifying motion. The Physics and nature's motion. Ecstasy and intensification. The ethics of motion: place, limit and God -- Light, motion and Scientia experimentalis. Robert Grosseteste: the science of light and the light of truth. The Experimentum. Roger Bacon: truth and experiment -- St. Thomas Aquinas: the god of motion. At the limits of Aristotelian physics. Motion and God. Virtue, grace and motion. Christ, the Eucharist and motion -- The isolation of physics. Avicenna on metaphysics and physics. The theory of impetus and the quantification of motion -- Newton: God without motion. The theological context of Newtonian motion. Motion in the Principia. Absolute space, Christ and motion. The fate of mechanistic motion.
Motion.
God.
Science
Religion and science.